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COMMENTARY: Will the Supreme Court Add Clarity or Confusion to the Issue of Incentives?  [ 5/8/2006 ] By: Bill King, Chief Editor
  If the High Court agrees with the argument that state tax incentives are a violation of the U.S. Constitution’s ‘Commerce Clause,’ what about states with low or no taxes?   Read The Full Article

2005 LEGISLATIVE QUOTIENT ™: Is Your State Keeping its Financial House in Order?  [ 11/10/2005 ] By: Bill King, Chief Editor  Related Link...
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Our 11th annual Legislative Quotient™ ranks state governments in terms of their positive impact on their state’s business climate.   Read The Full Article


COMMENTARY: Are State Attorney General Offices Becoming the Modern Day Version of the Small Town Speed Trap?  [ 11/10/2005 ] By: Bill King, Chief Editor
  Buoyed by their success in the tobacco settlement, are cash-grabbing attorneys general hurting your state’s business climate?   Read The Full Article

COMMENTARY: We All Pay for Procrastination in More Ways Than One  [ 9/14/2005 ] By: Bill King, Chief Editor
  Our country has a long — and bipartisan — history of postponing needed infrastructure spending in order to use the money for other purposes.   Read The Full Article

COMMENTARY: When it Comes to Eminent Domain, Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should  [ 7/11/2005 ] By: Bill King, Chief Editor
  The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision on eminent domain for economic development could hurt public support for those programs.   Read The Full Article

COMMENTARY: Let’s Give Grandma’s Fragile Psyche a Break  [ 3/14/2005 ] By: Bill King, Chief Editor
  If we really want to fix social security, we need to begin by not spending the excess FICA tax revenue we collect each year.   Read The Full Article

COMMENTARY: The War Against Incentives Rages On  [ 2/14/2005 ] By: Bill King, Chief Editor
  Financial incentives granted to DaimlerChrysler and Dell for major facility expansions are creating quite a stir among opponents of the incentives issue.   Read The Full Article

2004 LEGISLATIVE QUOTIENT ™: Is Your State Government Helping to Create a Competitive Business Climate?  [ 12/5/2004 ] By: Bill King  Related Link...
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Expansion Management’s 10th annual Legislative Quotient™ compares the business climates created by each of the 50 state legislatures.   Read The Full Article


Research Corner: Estate Tax Still Looms in Site Location Process  [ 12/5/2004 ] By: Michael Keating
  While the federal government phases out the estate tax, it’s still prevalent in many states.   Read The Full Article

COMMENTARY: Is Economic Development Really a “Public Use”?  [ 10/5/2004 ] By: Bill King
  Should a local government, under the guise of economic development, be able to use its powers of eminent domain to take property from one private party and give it to another?   Read The Full Article

COMMENTARY: Sure, Their Hair Looks Great, But Can They Balance a Check Book?  [ 11/1/2002 ] By: Bill King, editor
  With all the things you have to worry about in your business, should you really care how state politicians balance their books?   Read The Full Article

COMMENTARY: Who Put the Accountants in Charge?  [ 4/1/2002 ] By: Bill King, Chief Editor
  Companies that allow themselves to be distracted by "bookkeeping" games, rather than staying focused on the core business, are usually headed for problems down the road.   Read The Full Article

COMMENTARY: Who Put The Accountants In Charge?  [ 4/1/2002 ] By: Bill King
  Companies that allow themselves to be distracted by "bookkeeping" games, rather than staying focused on the core business, are usually headed for problems down the road.   Read The Full Article

COMMENTARY: Is Business Attraction Immoral?  [ 1/1/2002 ] By: Bill King, Chief Editor
  Should financial incentives be illegal, or is that just focusing on the symptoms instead of the desease?   Read The Full Article

COMMENTARY: “I’ll Gladly Pay you Tuesday for a Hamburger Today”  [ 9/1/2001 ] By: Bill King, Chief Editor
  Deferred spending on basic infrastructure is an easy solution to short-term financial problems, but the long-term consequences are almost always negative.   Read The Full Article

COMMENTARY: Give Us a Break on FICA  [ 3/1/2001 ] By: Bill King, Chief Editor
  Social security taxes are also taxes on employment. In addition to being onerous to most of America’s work force, they’re also a burden to America’s employers.   Read The Full Article

COMMENTARY: Should We Tax Sales Over the Internet?  [ 6/1/2000 ] By: Bill King, Chief Editor
  The question of Internet sales taxes has direct implications for local tax bases.   Read The Full Article